{"id":18980,"date":"2019-10-09T23:19:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=18980"},"modified":"2019-10-09T23:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T23:19:54","slug":"life-island-times-vietnam-vet-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/life-island-times-vietnam-vet-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Life & Island Times: Vietnam Vet Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author’s Note: WARNING: This may offend some; so, I apologize in advance.<\/p>\n

– Marlow<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This is another very strange week. The Turks are moving into Syria- and against the Kurds this morning, This look-back to other times suggests we might survive, but it will take courage.<\/p>\n

– Vic<\/p>\n

Vietnam Vet Prayer<\/p>\n

I’m unsure who authored this poem; but, according to my notes, Juda, a Vietnam vet who had spent some years in college, recited it one night to us assembled drunken children of god:<\/p>\n

Our war fathers who play DC’s game
\nF*ck all y’all in Jesus’s name
\nThy wars come
\nThy killing be done
\nVietnam unlike our fathers World War dread
\nYou over-count this day, our enemy’s daily dead
\nAnd forget us, your war’s casualties
\nAs we grieve our friends who died
\nAnd lead us not into BS ceasefires
\nAnd deliver us from commie liars
\nFor yours are the big bucks,
\nThe politicians, the makers of war trucks,
\nAnd the male chauvinist war pigs forever, Amen.<\/p>\n

Several listeners shot our libations out of our noses in response. There were also some “F*cking A’s” from those who got this grunt worldview’s deeper meaning. <\/p>\n

It was the most anti-war thing any of these warriors ever said in my presence.<\/p>\n

\"100919-LIT\"<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 From My Isle Seat
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Author’s Note: WARNING: This may offend some; so, I apologize in advance. – Marlow Editor’s Note: This is another very strange week. The Turks are moving into Syria- and against the Kurds this morning, This look-back to other times suggests we might survive, but it will take courage. – Vic Vietnam Vet Prayer I’m unsure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18983,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18980\/revisions\/18983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}